Bill 66 is both a broken…

Bill 66 is both a broken promise and a travesty. It's already making more opponents for the Premier. Is this what he wants? The Greenbelt is treasured by many, many Ontarians, who feel a sense of peace (for the greenness and connection to nature) and pride (for Ontario's commitment to protecting the environment and saving the planet for ourselves and our descendants) when they see those signs: "Entering the Greenbelt". What will people feel when they see signs saying: "Now entering another industrialized, over-developed area that used to be green and beneficent"? Well, of course such signs won't exist. They would be advertising the shame of Bill 66.

Open for business is fine, not that Ontario was ever closed for business. But the businesses that should take root here should do so in already-designated industrial areas, or be of the sort that improves rather than degrades the natural environment. Jobs in sustainable, non-polluting energy production should be encouraged. Ontario can be competitive without being retrograde. Ontario should strive for leadership, not in messy industrialization and unrestrained growth, but in preserving the world.

DO NOT pass Bill 66! Just take it off the roster, please. It is wrong in so many ways.